QA/Automation/Projects/Automation Training

Overview

Given our knowledge in automation for various Mozilla related projects, our goal is to support interested people in gaining their knowledge in software development and especially test automation. Therefor we are planning to have 4 automation training this quarter, on #automation channel.

Name:	Automation Trainings
Leads:	Andreea Matei, Cosmin Malutan
Contributors:	n/a
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.mozilla.org/automation-training

Roadmap

Date	Version	Details
May 21st, 2014	-	First automation training day
May 28th, 2014	-	Second automation training day
June 4th, 2014	-	Third automation training day
June 11th, 2014	-	Fourth automation training day
June 30th, 2014	-	4 automation trainings done

How To Contribute

First step to contribute is to join our training days! You will find there all the details on getting started and find a list of tasks for you to contribute.

• Mozmill:
  • Run Mozmill tests without a setup: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozmill-crowd/versions/?page=1#version-0.2
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Mozmill_tests
  • Other Support Projects for Mozmill related tests
    • https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-automation/ (Scripts to easy the run of mozmill scripts)
    • https://github.com/mozilla/mozdownload (tool to download builds from the FTP server)
    • https://github.com/whimboo/mozmill-ci (Continuous integration system for Mozmill tests)
• Reftests and Crash Tests
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Creating_reftest-based_unit_tests
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Running_automated_tests#Reftests
• TPS - Testing and Profiling tool for Sync
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/TPS
  • https://github.com/whimboo/coversheet (Continuous integration system for TPS tests)
• WebQA - Various tests for Mozilla owned websites
  • General information about Web QA automation projects: https://quality.mozilla.org/teams/web-qa/#Automated
  • Getting started: https://quality.mozilla.org/docs/webqa/running-webqa-automated-tests/
• Firefox OS & Gaia UI tests:
  • Gaia UI Tests Introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Automated_testing/gaia-ui-tests
  • Running Tests: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Automated_testing/gaia-ui-tests/Gaia_UI_Tests_Run_Tests
• Mochitests and Browser-chrome Tests:
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mochitest
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Browser_chrome_tests
• Robocop: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Robocop/Firefox_for_Android_automation_using_Robocop

List of Tasks

We will add here the tasks need for each training day 21st May:

Task	Owner	Status
Prepare invite mail	Andreea and Cosmin	Done
Write blog post article	Andreea	Done https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/05/automation-training-day-may-21st/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/05/automation-training-day-may-28th/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/06/automation-training-day-june-4th/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/06/automation-training-day-june-11th/
Advertise the training days in the community (talk to Ioana Chiorean for help) Also add it in https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/	Andreea	Done
Make sure to change #automation topic channel for those days	Henrik	Done
Reply to the invite mail and write a blog post with details after each training day	Andreea and Cosmin	Done https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/05/automation-training-day-may-21st-results/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/06/automation-training-day-may-28th-results/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/06/automation-training-day-june-4th-results/ https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/06/automation-training-day-june-11th-results/
Make sure to respond to contributors questions and guide them through the bugs	Andreea and Cosmin	Done

Documentation

• Introduction into Test Frameworks
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Automated_testing (Mozilla automated testing - frameworks overview)

References

• Getting Started
  • Javascript
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript (online course)
    • http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/ (good practices)
    • http://eloquentjavascript.net/ (book - accessible as HTML)
    • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript (reference)
  • Python
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
    • https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
  • HTML / CSS
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web